The Medical Update – Detailed Injury Modeling

Medical Update Official Launch

The biggest update since the World Builder and Modding is coming to Broke Protocol today. The new Medical Update v1.05 features the start of a completely reworked damage and injury system. Characters are not simple health pools anymore. Players can now sustain a variety of injuries with punishing effects. Risk management and medical role-playing are brought to focus in v1.05.

New Injury Modeling

Gunshots, falls, auto collisions, and even drugs can cause debilitating injuries to your character. Many injuries are slow to heal, or in the case of fractures, won’t remedy at all without proper medical treatment. Bloodloss needs bandages or blood bags, fractures need a splint, and pain medication or drugs can heal other injuries. Medical items have a vital importance in the game meta now.

Detailed Damage Effects

It’s not only important to consider the types of injuries but where exactly they occur now. Players can be crippled depending on the specific body part that’s been hurt. A head injury obscures vision and hearing. Chest injuries will cause energy loss that might leave players unable to sprint. Abdominal hits cause dehydration and hunger. Arm injuries cause difficulties in aiming and leg injuries limit mobility. Proper triage is now vital to survive in v1.05.

New Medical Update Items

With all of the health related changes, the Paramedic job is about to get a bit more intense. New medical items are available at the hospital and Paramedic rank up loot has been tweaked to accommodate the latest additions. Remember to hover over the inventory tool tips to see what each item will cure. Note that paramedics are the only job class that can inspect everyone’s health status in order to provide suitable triage and treatment.

Food and Consumables Reworked

All other consumable items have been tweaked and balanced as well. Now every medical item, food, drink, bandage, etc can either be consumed yourself or equipped and used on others. Again, inventory tool tips are your friend to find out what are the best meals to boost your stats. And don’t underestimate the ability of booze as a low-cost painkiller.

Other Improvements and Additions

Other major changes include the ability to block against melee while holding nearly any item, health regen if stats are > 75%, drug effect stacking and the removal of addiction. Big networking fixes and optimizations made it into 1.05 for a smoother experience. And finally, and big thanks to all the medical workers around the world combating the current epidemic. Keep kickin’ ass.

Android version of the game should update (roughly) around the same time as PC today.